Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-04-20
HOW DOLLS ARE MADE.
The Manufacture of the Aristocratic
Paper Pulp Doll.

The Manufacture OF the Aristocratic
Paper Pulp Doll.
The doll fraternity may be divided into
several races, differing in development
and in artistic Execution. There is the
old fashioned wooden doll, whose shrunk-
en- shanks are sometimes covered with (D
shredly garments. This is the poor girls
doll. Then there is another wooden doll,
but more Ialished. whose limbs and
trunk are padded and covered with white
leather. Sometimes this species has a
porcelain head on il. There is also a
dummy doll, made Of India rubber,
whose sole virtue is that it is unbreak-
able.
Then comes the aristocratic doll, which
3 made out of nothing else but paper,
With a porcelain head, but it is quite a
superior creature. This is the doll which
b made in Paris to-day, Hundreds Of
thousands Of them are exported every
year, and sell at anything from 80 cents
mp TO 800. II is not many years since
this new race first appeared, but it has
already driven its predecessors out of the
market in Paris. Here is how it is made.
The paper pulp is first worked into a
fine mortar. Then the dolls are nodded
bit by bit. One workman will mold moth
ing but arms. another the feet, and 50 on.
When the trunks and limbs are shaped
and dried they are painted. They get
five coats Of whitish paint, and are then
vanished. After this elastic hands are
inserted in the arms and legs To keepthem
together. The joints are made workable,
and into whatever position you may put
an arm or leg il viii stick there.
The head is more difficult to make than
the body. II Is as already observed, made
out of porcelain. After being nodded
the heads are put into an oven and ARE
burned for twenty-seven hours. Then they
are rubbed with pumice stone and pol
ished. Then they are painted, and the
painting and coloring of a dolls head is
a ticklish business, requiring, as the
French say, the utmost ~dcliCatc-se. The
dolls eyes are madeO on the sImc principle
as artificial human eyes. Its hair is wool
from wild goats in the mountains Of
Thibet. To turn ont one Of these dolls
thirty different persons are required.
In order tn find out who buys these
big dolls. which are too biz for children
and too expensive for ordinary people. |
called on II. Juneau, the inventor or
father of the doll | have described. who
EMPLOYS 500 workmon and women in his
factory. and n number Of outsiders be-
sides. After giving me one general
particular about the doll industry he re-
marked;
1.-THE very largest dolls. about three
and a half feet in height. and costing -
francs (2IJl without clothes. are gcncr.
ally bought by shopkeepcrs 10 put in
their windows and serve 10 show OF boys
and girls dresses. Then Young ladies Of
Is and 20 buy dolls 10 keep in practice
dressmaking with them. They are also
usel for ornaments in houses, because a
well and artistically made doll is a
thing Of beauty. Which are the greatest
doll buying countries2 Well. after France.
Russia or the United States go in most
for dolls de luxe. We also send a great
many 10 Spain, but very few 10 England.
The English do not spend much money
On dolls. Paris Cor. st. Louis Repub-
lean.